Word: gourmandes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly came indignant letters: "After four years of war here is a man who cultivates gastronomy. This man ran around Athens from one market to another, tried fish, vegetables, meat, chose with a gourmand's expertness the best there was to buy . . . then hurried home to fill his big belly. . . . It is very displeasing...
...statistics on which this conclusion is based are enough to take away a gourmand's appetite: "Those with 20% overweight show mortality approximately one-third higher than average; those with 30% overweight, approximately one-half higher; those with 50% overweight show mortality practically double that for average weight. . . . The mortality from coronary artery disease and other degenerative heart conditions among overweights is more than 1½ times that of average-weight men. . . . The most striking penalty for overweight is diabetes. The death rate from this disease among men 25% or more overweight [is] eight times as high as among...
...Enjoying Two Dinners, or Invention of the Stomach Pump, which shows a doctor perched on a chair, fountaining the bilge from an overstuffed gourmand with a four-ft. contraption resembling a tire pump. Others wait their turn. Cries one: "Be quick Dr. there is another glorious Dinner...
...boards and shoveled across the footlights of Boston's peaceful old Shubert Theatre. Producers Tickey, Hale and Robinson have reached into the pantry of theatrical food and loaded a groaning table with every edible known to the theatroniverous world. Net result: the most appetetive play-going gourmand alive could hardly leave without a satieted groan and a distinct craving for Alka-Seltzer. Reason: the recipe used was an inexcusably hacked script...
Entitled simply The Cheese Omelette Clubbe after a motion to name it The Cheese Omeletic Institute of 1941 was defeated, the organization is headed by gourmet Rufus Mathewson '41 and gourmand Nelson Gidding '41. Its seven members plan to meet in one of Mr. Cronin's semi-private dining rooms on Monday evenings, order their "omelettes epatants" from the special chef, and dine before the awed gazes of uninitiated onlookers...